The same thought also sprang first to my mind when I discovered Billy’s very-1st post, made 122325.
S/He/It is one of a cadre of newly-appeared mods that made their first-ever posts (@ least, with that particular profile) between 121525 & 122425:
December 15th=
Lola_Amazon (link, NSFE Profile)
n.b. - Lola, like Billy, is one of the members of the FMT-CMT (“Forum Moderation Team”-“Community Manager Team”) whose profiles have blank ‘About me’ AND ‘About my business’ blurbs…
December 22nd =
Sky_Amazon (link, NSFE Profile) - who, like Ammy & Ram, might be trying a bit too hard w/ the ‘About me’ Statement/Blurb:
December 23rd =
Billy_Amazon (link, NSFE Profile)
n.b. - Billy, like Lola, is one of the members of the FMT-CMT
whose profiles have blank ‘About me’ AND ‘About my business’ blurbs…
December 24th =
Ammy is one of the mods whose profile sports an ‘About my business’ Statement/Blurb which differs from one of the two or three ‘standard templates’ more-typically used by members of the FMT-CMT:
The seasoned and savvy forum veterans, more than a few of whom have been around since the Seller Soapbox years, would certainly tell the rest of us that mods have always come and gone - e.g., Lauren, Scotty, and the true ‘angelic’ one, Susan H., spring readily to my mind on that score, as they are all still sorely missed in this here quarter - but 2025 represented a state of flux perhaps unseen since the January, 2022 advent of the “New Year, New Voices” Initiative which heralded the Screeching Harpy Katie S.-promulgated mutilation of the ASF (“Amazon Seller Forum”).
Among the oddities seen over the past year have been the resurrection of participation by ‘Testing mods’ such as Kris_Amazon (link, NSFE Profile) - a user account that began w/ the handle “Alyssa_CMD” in the very-1st post made on 061722 (i.e., in the OSFE), and morphed sometime prior to 112224 into Aly_Amazon (remember the “Spill the beans” discussion? [link, 112224 SAS post]), before assuming the current handle at some point between that 2nd-ever reply & the third, made 033125, followed by the provisioning of that same profile with some interesting blurbs* - and Hank_CAM (link, 070125 SAS post, w/ profile link) - who briefly flirted with participating as an actual moderator making replies (and/or creating new threads) between 111025 & 111925, before reverting to the previous bug bounty-hunting activities - but the sudden appearance of so many new mod profiles in such a short period this past December, as indicated above, would appear to me mayhaps a harbinger of things to come…
*
Kris_Amazon’s ‘About me’ and ‘About my business’ statements, as of today, 1 January 2026: